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Subgenre Sampler
La Boheme (1926)- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renee Adoree… - Silent film adaptation of the 1896 opera by Giacomo Puccini, with Lillian Gish starring alongside John Gilbert as doomed lovers Mimi and Rodolphe, a…
Mother (1926)
- Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Feat. Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov - In one of the masterpieces of early Russian cinema, a fable of pre–revolutionary worker–resistance and Tsarist oppression is heightened…
Battleship Potemkin (1925)- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Blasky, Grigori Alexandrov - This landmark Soviet propaganda film about the 1905 revolution is one of the greatest classics of all time. The smart use of visual metaphor and that…
Last Laugh, The (Letzte Mann, Der) (1925)- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings - One of the classics of silent German cinema, this puts visual expressionism to use for a penetrating psychological study of a man's systematic…
Late Mathias Pascal, The (Feu Mathias Pascal) (1925)- Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine, Michel Simon - A French silent film, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello. Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine stars as Mathias, an assistant librarian from a…
Variety (1925)
- Dir. E.A. Dupont
Feat. Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti - A cautionary fable of romantic treachery set in the since–vanished vaudeville world, lent depth through its sophisticated visual style. Emil…
Kean (1924)- Dir. Alexandre Volkoff
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine - A French silent film depicting the life of Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, played by Ivan Mosjoukine, focusing on his romance with countess Elena de…
A Woman of Paris (1923)- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou, Charles Chaplin - Chaplin's early attempt at drama is a mostly successful tale of a woman, who despite serious intentions, ends up the mistress of a boozing lecher in…
Burning Crucible, The (Le Brasier Ardent) (1923)- Dir. Ivan Mosjoukine
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine - Melodrama styled as a semi–comic Kafkaesque nightmare. The film that inspired Jean Renoir to start directing.
Beyond the Rocks (1922)- Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Edythe Chapman… - Silent–era romantic drama that was considered a lost film until a nitrate print was discovered in the Netherlands in 2003 and restored to…
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